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Year 3

Different types of land use in the UK

I can describe different types of land use in the UK.

New
New
Year 3

Different types of land use in the UK

I can describe different types of land use in the UK.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Houses and gardens take up 5% or just 5 out of our 100 squares
  2. Woods make up just 10% or one tenth, or ten of our hundred squares
  3. 27% or 27 squares out of the 100 are used for crops; half of this is fed to animals
  4. More than a quarter of land in the UK - 27% or 27 out of the 100 squares - is used for pasture for livestock

Common misconception

Children may believe that all arable crops grown in the UK are required by humans for food.

Explain that 40% or 2/5 of the crops grown in the UK are used for animal feed.

Keywords

  • Livestock - Livestock means the animals (but not birds) that are farmed.

  • Land use - Land use is the function or purpose of a particular area.

  • Habitat - Habitat is the natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism.

  • Wildlife - Wildlife refers to all living things that live in their natural habitat without human involvement.

  • Agriculture - Agriculture is the science and practice of cultivating soil and farming.

There is a wonderful video created by Friends of the Earth and Dan Raven- Ellison called 'The UK in 100 seconds'. This is an excellent visual representation of how the land in the UK is used with each second of footage representing 1% of land use.
Teacher tip

Equipment

100 cubes or counters

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
What type of farming is this?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: arable
dairy
sheep
Q2.
Which type of farming is this?
An image in a quiz
arable
Correct answer: dairy
sheep
Q3.
Match the three types of farming to their definitions.
Correct Answer:arable farming,growing crops like wheat or vegetables

growing crops like wheat or vegetables

Correct Answer:livestock farming,raising animals like sheep and cows

raising animals like sheep and cows

Correct Answer:mixed farming,a mixture of arable and livestock

a mixture of arable and livestock

Q4.
Which part of the UK usually gets the most rainfall?
Correct answer: west
east
south
Q5.
The of the UK is usually the warmest.
Correct Answer: south, southern areas, South
Q6.
Select the factors that are best suited to arable framing.
Correct answer: flat land
Correct answer: good soil
cooler weather
hilly land
Correct answer: warm weather

6 Questions

Q1.
What type of land use is this?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: residential
agricultural
woodland
Q2.
What type of land use is this?
An image in a quiz
residential
agricultural
Correct answer: transport
Q3.
This image shows land use.
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: agricultural, farming, Agricultural, agriculture, farm
Q4.
Which of these would be called artificial surface land use?
woodland
Correct answer: roads
Correct answer: buildings
Correct answer: airports
moorland
Q5.
is the main land use type in the UK.
Correct Answer: pasture, Pasture, pasture and arable, agriculture
Q6.
Which of these types of land use are not commonly found in the uplands of the UK?
moorland and heathland
Correct answer: arable
peat bogs
Q2 Tobias Rehbein/Pixabay